TOR on android.

in #tor5 years ago

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Just for those that enjoy some privacy.


Or for people like me that do not want to be tracked. TOR is now easily install able via any android device including phones. You can even choose a free vpn on there and choose the end location IP address.

My good lady has just installed it on her phone as an experiment, as she was fed up with duckduckgo as it kept closing the pages. Also firefox on her phone kept asking for her private details, so I am not sure what is going on with them anymore.

Me - I have a mobile phone though very rarely carry it or use it, so I matter not. I set myself free from mobile phones when I left the UK and the corporate world & not willing to carry one now.

TOR on a mobile phone seems a lot faster than it does via a pc. You can also get free anonymous email addresses on there.

The mobile version seems aimed at a mass market unlike the Computer version - where realistically you need to have some idea what .onion you are looking for, where as the phone version it spells it all out for you with easy to read instructions.

What is this onion I speak of? Well think about the end of the web address above you now, and it being .com. Then think about others like .co.uk etc etc and think about TOR now, TOR uses .onion instead of .com etc.

We shall test this TOR mobile out for a few weeks and get back to another more detailed post in the near future.


I see a worrying trend.


Since myspace really. Myspace was where suckerberg stole his whole farcebook idea from. People being willing to put their whole life on FB including when and where they are on holiday, some even tag the location of the bar or restaurant they are in whilst abroad. It takes nothing to know when a lot of people are not home, and makes it easy to relieve them of all their worldly goodies at home.

Imagine also being a policeman now, in this day and age, you could find out where most people were on any given day just by their twitter of FB pages.

And then add in Alexa listening to people at home, admitted by the devil itself google and bingo, guilty as charged no witness required.

Not my world, and if it is yours, I seriously urge you to think again, though hey, your life.


Newbie aid week.


Starting Monday, I am going to be trawling the introduceyourself tag for a week, and spend some upvotes on our newest members, anyone fancy joining in? I know @bashadow spends a lot of time doing this selflessly, how about you and I commit to it for a few days next week starting from Monday?....

I still remember how tough it was when I landed here as I did not know 1 single person on here, and everyone I managed to talk into getting a account walked within weeks at the most. Spread some love good people.
The retention rate is abysmal on here and as much as those at the middle and top say it matters not, I think it does, as who is going to buy all that steem sitting on the outside exchanges if we do not keep people interested? It sure is not going to be those that are selling it all.

Anyway, I shall catch you in the PM, things to do now, have a perfectly pleasant day ahead
@shepz1 gets busy with some engines.


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Works well for me, Brave is another good mobile option, no ads on there although the desktop version seems to have some troubles.

Nice info - cheers bro.

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Hmm..
Some time ago I heard rumors that german it such as Bundestrojaner infiltrated Tor..
Are you sure Tor is still secure and anonymous?

Seems OKAY to me, though I heard the same rumors about the USA/CIA infiltrating it too. That could be just to keep people away from TOR as I have not seen any hard evidence with regards to the rumors, just rumors.

Interesting, I wonder if they have this available for iPhone or if Apple is too government-oriented to allow for TOR

What do you mean duckduckgo is closing windows? I started to use that as my main search engine when I signed up for Presearch (have you signed up for it? getting paid crypto, or even anything really, to do web searches is pretty cool) Down with google!

Its crazy that sooo many people are willingly allowing for the spying on themselves via their "smart" items. I was so mad when I was over my friends house and we were chatting about crypto and stuff and just having a good conversation. I had no idea, but out of nowhere he says Alexa play music and I looked at him and was like wtf man you didn't tell me you had a spy in here. I absolutely do not speak freely around that government funded piece of equipment. I was reading that, unsurprisingly of course, that the vast majority of these "smart" devices have 0 antivirus or hack prevention on them. I wonder how many houses are burning or exploding because people hack into the devices and cause them to catch fire.

Not sure about Iphone, I do not trust them either.

The window keeps closing on her phone using duckduckgo, no idea why as it works fine on my laptop and is my "go to" browser.

Agreed regards Alexa, I wrote about that device a few days ago, and have zero idea why anyone would want a spy in their living room, I hear they do lights with a microphone in too now, there goes ya sex life on record.

The IOT network is very vulnerable to attack and has been hacked many times already, smart is not so smart after all hey. :-)
https://www.iotforall.com/5-worst-iot-hacking-vulnerabilities/

Hope you get good results with TOR looking forward to you're review in time. No farcebook or Alexa for me:) Yes I am in on going through the newby posts as I have done that at time now and then. Have fun fixing them engines mate :)

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The interesting part for me is my good lady was always wary of me going on TOR, yet now she has it on the phone, she jumped in head first, and I am not showing her how to use it, more watching what she picks up on her own, time will tell. :-)

Just putting the Yamaha rd 350 lc engine back together, then onto the Husaberg tonight, when my ladies settle down for a movie.

Thanks mate hope the motor goes well.

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Almost finished and way before the spring.

Cool mate :)

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I used to spend a lot of time looking for good content in the introduce yourself tag but I've really fallen down a lot on that lately especially since my vote is worth so little now so the old VP is quickly exhausted.
I'll definitely pick up the challenge for a few days next week. Great idea.

Cheers my friend, and I hear you with regards to vote power, as at 500 sp I had a 5 cent vote, now at 3300 sp I only have a 7 cent vote, stinks does it not!

Seems like it would be slower on mobile.
Got a link to download it?

My good lady downloaded it direct to her android phone, and she is not here for me to ask at the moment, so I will get back to you later today when she comes home. :-)

I used to use Orfox I think it was called, but that was quite poo!

With regards to the newbies and making tgem feel welcome, somehow when I type S in the browser it takes me to steemit/introduceyourself which then opens up steemit on the new intro posts which is very cool but its easy to get lost in saying hi to people instead of doing what I first wanted to do on there 😂

Just found the second BTC atm! Nearly got thrown out for taking pictures of it though hahahs

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In Krakow they have BTC exchanges also for cash, not many countries do, though here they do.
The government have tried everything to dissuade people from buying cryptos, they even bribed/paid a famous amateur youtuber who is popular here £100,000.00 to get him to talk trash about cryptos, and that was the "central banksters" that paid him. Here is just one of the people they paid off.

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/02/17/polands-central-bank-secretly-paid-youtubers-slander-cryptos

Fuck! I thought Id have cash to buy some crypto as before I came I believed I had way to much money for PL, but maybe not 😂 would be great to get some here though, I want more steem!

Ill check this corruption when im back at appartment, in carrefour at mo lol..

Wondering if to go to sauna, but really want to find some smokey actually instead hahaha

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No idea where you would get a smoke from there bud.
Happy shopping lol.

Ah man its not looking promicing for now lol.. Dam I cant even sleep properly hahaha! How far away are you again ?! Lol, got an offer in kratowice or whatever its called 😂 looking for the wizard of oz 😊

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Katowice is not that far from Krakow, I did some work there for general motors, helping to set up their quality department, nice place for a night out too trust me, 90 pence a pint as it is full of students.

My other mate who i never met apart from on here said its 60miles east from here?!

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You can get a very nice minibus from the main bus terminal in Krakow, straight into the center of Katowice for a couple of quid. I used them from here to Katowice for £10 and that is nearly all the way across the country.

Check out my Auchan guide for you. :-)

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